My name is Ann and I have lived in five cities in as many years. I started this blog while living in Auckland - after five years of raising boys it helped me start to remember just how much I like to write.

I am a mother and a wife and someone who never really thought that might be the first thing to write about myself. I am also a journalist but at the moment (and probably for ever more) the wife and mother are winning.

In my role as wife I have spent the last five years or so on the move. From London back home to Australia, first to Melbourne, then Sydney, across the ditch to New Zealand and now back to Melbourne.

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'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'

Virginia Woolf, 1929

I have neither so I blog.

Friday flowers...

Email me

myvillalife@gmail.com

Reading...

What I've just read...

A book club choice but I recommend. It's set in Perth during the post war polio outbreak. I like her writing (others do too - she won a few awards) and it prompted me to read much more about the polio outbreak.

What I'm reading...

The Golden Age - Joan London

The Secret Place - Tana French

I've read all her books this summer and this is the last - a new to me crime writer. She's Irish and it's not the usual gritty tortured detective noir.

What I'm reading next...

Commonwealth by Ann Pratchett, by next Wednesday for bookclub... I like to live on the edge and will probably start it on Monday.